to think it is about time the world realised that it is not Kate MIDDLETON?

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She has been married for almost 2 years.

I suppose its like everyone calling Princess Diana, Lady Di for about 20 years.

Seriously? In 2013 you are commenting that a married woman is still known by her maiden name?

^ This. I didn't change my name when I married and neither did my blokey.

Also, they can call her Princess Catherine Fuckpants for all I care. They're a bunch of spongers. Time we got rid.

you are assuming that she's changed her legal name.

just because she's got the title duchess of Cambridge doesn't mean she's changed her proper surname.

mediaeval much?

no, whatdoiknowanyway, not seriously at all if you read my last post, although it has become quite interesting now

and everyone saying "she's royal sge doesn't have a surname"

no, she's royal so she doesn't have to have a surname but like every other person in the uk her legal name is whatever she wants it to be.

I like the fact that people are still using, without comment, her own surname as there has been no official announcement of her having changed it. I look forward to the day when people assume a woman has kept her own surname on marriage until told otherwise rather than the other way round as it still tends to be.

She has no legal obligation to change her surname on marriage, in fact william could legally have taken hers and in fact she could change it by deed poll to anything!

exactly whoknows!

As a citizen of the world can I just say I don't give a damn?

I have been married 15 years and my name is the same as it was before I got married.

Why does it matter?

It seems sometimes they need a surname, but most times they don't.
www.royal.gov.uk/ThecurrentRoyalFamily/TheRoyalFamilyname/Overview.aspx

I don't think there's any Debrett type reason why she can't be Catherine (or Kate, if that's !s what she calls herself) Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge. Is there?

I doggedly refer to her as Kate Middleton just to piss her off.

She can be called Princess William of Wales - check Wikipedia

She's Kate WhateverYouChoseToCallHerSoThatEveryoneSimplyKnowsWhoYouAreTalkingAbout.

So that could be Kate Middleton. Or Katie RoyalWasteofSpace. Or Kate PappedAgain. Or worse.

It's really not important whether you get it right. Its not as 99.999999% who talk about her, are doing so formally and need to get it right.

Does she actually refer to herself as Kate, or was that made up by the media ie "waitey katie?"
Anyway I think Catherine Cambridge is cool.

Anyone can call themselves anything, so long as it's not for nefarious purposes.

She could call herself Chesty LaRue if she likes providing she doesn't use the alias to con old ladies or similar.

Our ridiculous Royals seem to make up the rules of their names as it suits them. I think Kate should take on the real name and get back to the true roots of our Royal heritage and embrace it.

Catherine Saxe-Coburg- Gotha has a certain ring to it even if it is a bit of a gobfull!

Saxe-Coburg_Gotha is no more the true roots than any other past name attached to the royal family, and would be incorrect even without the 1917 official change to Windsor, since following patrilineal naming practices their name would be Mountbatten (or if you want to be really picky, Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Gluckstein, which was Phillip's original nominal).

I think that when they were casting about for a British surname/house of during WWI, they should have just gone back to the last British surname: Stewart/Stuart. It also has the nice touch of being an occupational surname, like Carpenter or Cooper.

Did the Queen stop being Elizabeth Windsor when she got married?

Does it really matter? My son has my maiden name as his middle name. X Middleton-Windsor, or Windsor-Middleton and/or all the other permuatations will always be known as X, assuming he/she will be King or Queen one day. I will PMSL though if they call it Lexi or Alfie.

permutations

:-)

Stuart? Are you joking!!!! This shower are small town usurpers!!!! Of course they couldn't use Stuart .

no, the Queen is Elizabeth Windsor when she gives a surname.

I don't think she made an announcement when she married that she would be dropping her maiden name? Neither did I but the bloody in laws assume it anyway despite being told 100 times!